"By the way."
"What?"
"This is for you."
The girl handed Gu Qingshan a long sword.
The Heaven Sword.
Gu Qingshan took it, surprised. "You went into Time Island and brought back the Heaven Sword?"
Luo Bingli replied calmly, "The timeline you and I are in is the true flow of time, one of the two lines in the Closed Loop."
"Then this sword—"
"I forged it in advance. It has all the Heaven Sword's power, but it cannot give birth to a sword spirit. As designed when it was first forged, it will immediately merge with the Earth Sword and become the fusion of the two swords."
As she spoke, a long sword appeared behind Gu Qingshan.
The Earth Sword.
It hummed. "Am I really going to merge with the Heaven Sword?"
"Yes. Only then will you obtain your full power," Luo Bingli said.
"What will happen during the fusion?" The Earth Sword sounded a little worried.
"Nothing much. But as the sword spirit, you'll have one chance to change the sword's shape. If there's anything about your current form you're unhappy with, you can change it now," Luo Bingli reminded it.
"All right," said the Earth Sword.
It flew forward, and it and the Heaven Sword began to shine.
Their light blended together. The two swords gradually overlapped, merging into one.
A few breaths later,
a brand-new long sword was born.
It flew down into Gu Qingshan's hand.
Rows of prompt text appeared in the void:
``` "You have obtained an Abyssal Soul Artifact, an Eternal Abyss Weapon, a Demon-Suppressing Weapon, a Key to the Gates of All Worlds, and the legendary Twin Swords."
"Since you have always been the master of this sword, you already know its powers."
"Sword name: Heaven and Earth."
"This sword possesses the